BY LEIGH HUGHES
The official beginning of the US-led war on Iraq was the catalyst for the abandonment of classrooms and the closure of several schools on March 20, as hundreds of students walked out in protest. In the following days, not only did
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Those in the US, British and Australian governments and their mainstream media toadies who hoped the anti-war movement in the US and around the world would collapse following the launch of Washington's barbaric blitzkrieg against Iraq would be
BY
ALISON DELLIT
After a week of emergency anti-war actions, tens of thousands of
Australians continued to protest on the March 22-23 weekend. Protests in
eight cities mobilised around 120,000 people. This included a whopping
30,000 on
BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE — Shortly after the bombing of Iraq began people started to gather at the State Library to protest against the start of the war. The protesters, organised by the Victorian Peace Network, heard from a range of speakers
BY
JOHN PILGER
How have we got to the point where a handful of Western governments
take us into an illegal and immoral war against Iraq, a stricken country
with which we have no quarrel and offers no threat: an act of aggression
opposed by
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's ROHAN PEARCE examines the main justifications used by US President George Bush and Prime Minister John Howard to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq.
1. Iraq possesses chemical and biological weapons
The UN inspections have so
BY ALISON DELLIT
It didn't take long for the corporate media to fall even further behind backing Washington's war on Iraq. On March 19, the day after Prime Minister John Howard announced his government had officially committed Australian troops to
BY JIM MCILROY
BRISBANE — “There are now two superpowers in the world — the imperial
mafia [in Washington] and the anti-war and global justice movements worldwide”,
William Blum, US author, journalist and radical commentator and former
US
NEW YORK CITY — More than 250,000
people marched through the streets of New York City on March 22. The demonstration
was so big that as the first contingents arrived at the rallying point,
people were still leaving the start point 38 blocks
BY EMMA MURPHY
ADELAIDE — On hearing US President George Bush's declaration of imminent war on March 18, 500 people flocked to Parliament House at 5pm. The spontaneous crowd was passionate, loud, and articulate in its outright rejection of the
As soon as the war began on March 20, more than one hundred people gathered spontaneously in Civic for a speakout, led by Resistance activist Erin Killion. This included many public servants, and over 20 high school students who immediately left
BY SUSAN AUSTIN
On March 20, 200 people attended a protest and march the local navy base, where a mock "die-in" was held. This was very powerful, and organised by local group Peace by Peace. On the following day, at lunchtime, there was a rally in
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